This appears to be: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213072
Also, the procedure to reliably workaround this bug is: 1. put evolution in offline mode (File/Work Offline) 2. close evolution 3. open a terminal and run: evolution --force-shutdown find ~/.evolution/mail/local -name "*ev-summary" -exec rm -f {} \; 4. start evolution 5. wait several seconds (until the status bar at the bottom is empty) 6. close evolution (it may take a long time to close) 7. Start evolution 8. Enable online mode (File/Work Online) If you start evolution in Online mode after removing the summary files, then you may end up with duplicates and/or more folder mismatch errors. If you don't do 'evolution --force-shutdown', then you may also end up with more folder mismatch errors. There seems to be some discussion of this getting fixed here: http://www.go-evolution.org/Camel.Local#Mbox_bugs -- Error while Refreshing folder: Summary and folder mismatch, even after a sync https://launchpad.net/bugs/28403 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs